23G [October, 



Soleiwhia pretiosa, iStn., and a curious variety or species of Eriocotfis, 

 apparently differing from fuscanella, 7i., andalusiella, libl., and pi/ro- 

 coma., Meyr. The most interesting thing found was a larva mining 

 patches on leaves of a very tall mallow, which after brief pupation 

 produced a new species of Dialectica, somewhat similar to Gracilaria 

 omissella, Z. ; this larva is brightly coloured, with transverse red bauds, 

 greatly resembling that of Coriscium hrongniardellum, F., when full- 

 fed. One or two larva? of Temtopsis permixtella, H8., were found 

 on Phillijrea near Cape Spartel in their leaf-rolling stage, and easily 

 reared. On this side of the town the country is for the most part 

 covered with C is ( us -hrnah, but on the east side Quercus coccifera is 

 abundant, after about a mile or two of the heavy sand of the shore, 

 and on the leading shoots of this oak several larvae (apparently of a 

 Tortricid) were collected, which have uot yet produced the moths, and 

 a single Coleophora-likc case, exactly corresponding to those described 

 by Dr. 8taudingcr from Chiclana {vide Stn. Tin. S. Eur., 151), and 

 attributed to his genus Epidola. Unfortunately this also has failed 

 to produce a moth, but the larva of Epidola is now known to occupy 

 a short piece of hollow stem, and the dark brown cases on Quercus 

 must certainly belong to some species of Coleophora. 



The only other excursion of any importance made from Malaga 

 was on a visit to a friend on the coast near Cala Moral on the road to 

 Gibraltar. The vegetation here was very rich, especially in numerous 

 species of Cistus. Among the best captures were the following : — 

 Gelechia pluteUiformis, Stgr., Goleopliora solidaginella, JStgr. (larva? 

 abundant, since reared), Aprocerema lamprostoma, 7i., originally de- 

 scribed from Syracuse, which I now find equals my South African 

 Gelechia zulu [Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 261-2, PI. XII, 

 30], a single specimen of Orneodes perittodactyla, Stgr., Pal- 

 todora lineatella, Z., an Eriocottis having the pale dorsal margin of 

 andalusiella, Rbl., but distinctly greyer and less shining than that 

 species, the costa also less arched. A very similar form from Malaga 

 does not possess the dorsal streak. I have seldom seen anything 

 more beautiful than the flowers of Cistus crispus at this place. The 

 brilliancy of their colouinng in a carpet of low growth was almost 

 dazzling. 



Thus far I have mentioned short visits paid to various places 

 during the time that my head-quarters were established at Malaga. 

 One trip to the Sierra Frigiliana in pursuit of the Spanish Ibex 

 {Gapra hispanicn) during which entomology was almost entirely ne- 

 glected needs no mention here. My recollections of Malaga, except 



